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There are people with layouts on boards smaller than one of those floors.

Like this - each time the radius reduces as you move away from the straight, you move the centre up the radius line at the end of the preceding circle, and draw the new part of the curve - and then repeat, until you are happy.

The transition from straight to curved shouldn't be just straight into the final radius - it needs to be staged, or flared, in a 'French curve" manner - it looks and runs much better if you do that. You can create virtually the same effect by having a series of short circular curves running on from one another. Flexi-track can give you a much better arrangement than set-track will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_curve

With flexi-track, you can largely do what you want, as long as your vehicles will cope with the radii that you end up with. It is worth, though, carefully 'flaring' things together.

I'm liking the filing cabinet - the shallow-drawer ones are so handy for tool storage - much easier than rummaging around in toolboxes. I have several, of various depths. I would be lost without them now. You can arrange things systematically and it's easy to locate the right drawer and then find the item required. And you can reorder the drawers, if there are changes or additions to your 'system'. Drawers can be subdivided, if necessary, too. Highly recommended. There were people selling similar paint-storage arrangements via the model magazines in the 1980s - I have a punched steel one, where the shelves with 16 tinlets on each could be removed from a cabinet that holds four shelves.

In the 70s, there wouldn't be many trucks go past before there was a Hino.

I'm not getting involved! This could be the start of a slippery slope.

As noted elsewhere just now - even the big boys hit the stops now and then...

They may be consubstantial, of course, but we may be straying towards religious territory here. If we are, then @murrayecstarted it.

Saint Eoin, the patron saint of collectors.

Mmm, it looks like somebody has possibly had a slight tap on the right-hand one there - the first few supplementary clamps have been 'nudged together'...

I only got orange bubbles because I was too frightened to have anything with a black chassis.

You don't see this every day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-44833066 A fake ambulance stuffed into a level crossing, after leaving the scene of an earlier fatal collision.

https://cdn-02.independent.ie/incoming/article37116182.ece/964ac/AUTOCROP/w1920h1060/rachael-dermot-limerick-train-wedding.jpghttps://www.thevow.ie/real-weddings/irish-rail-should-do-speed-dating-newlyweds-board-wedding-day-love-train-six-years-after-meeting-on-the-dublin-to-ennis-service-37116183.html

The media understand their audience very well. Audience figures are their goals and they will do what is necessary to inflate those. When people stop being useful to that end, they will drop them and start a new campaign - tennis, motor racing, whatever is available and fits in with their targets at the time. And the audiences will generally go along with it.

A properly balanced engine is not just 'nicer', it is better in every way - the loads on the bearings are lessened, things last longer, and not just because they aren't shaken off. God knows what was going on in the float chamber of a boneshaker bike..? It's not many years ago that a ferry journey was accompanied by the constant jingling of the duty-free bottles - (although it has its current issues) Ulysses is notable for having almost undetectable engine vibration.

Balancing of reciprocating engines is rather more complicated than it looks. On steam locos, nobody ever seems to take much account of the second order vibrations, possibly just relying on the general mass of the machine to reduce those effects. In lighter machinery, particularly motorbikes, there may often be one or two balance shafts running at twice engine speed.

The 'end wheels' just have half of their respective interconnecting rods to cope with, the centre wheel has two halves of the interconnecting rods and about half of the con-rod from the piston imposed on it.

The corruption of the warning data spreads... There seems to have been a heat expansion issue on the Nenagh platform. A train came and went whilst I was there.

Now, you are just fuelling speculation.

Quick open-top conversion in Bradford today - handy in this weather. No injuries.

The two on the right would be clean - they are actually off-duty and are boogieing in a night club.

Do you still have the 'spare' bit from the truncated arch? If so, you could experiment with some diluted ink washes on that?